Trump flouts coronavirus protocols as security experts warn of need to protect president
Source: Washington Post
Trump flouts coronavirus protocols as security experts warn of need to protect president from a lethal threat
President Trump on Friday continued to eschew key public health guidelines from his own administration meeting with Republican lawmakers and World War II veterans without a face mask while expressing confidence that he is protected from the coronavirus despite a second White House staffer testing positive this week.
The president appeared puzzled that the aide, Katie Miller, the press secretary for Vice President Pence, had contracted the virus out of the blue after testing negative several times under a routine White House screening program put in place last month.
During the event with GOP members, Trump suggested the whole concept of tests isnt great, but he declared that he was satisfied with the procedures that are in place to protect him and his top aides.
I dont worry about things. I do what I have to do, said Trump, who this week resumed traveling with a visit to a manufacturing facility in Phoenix. Were dealing with an invisible situation. Nobody knows. All you can do is take precaution and do the best that you can.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-flouts-coronavirus-protocols-as-security-experts-warn-of-need-to-protect-president-from-a-lethal-threat/2020/05/08/3a6a9cec-9136-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html
tanyev
(42,627 posts)he probably would have already contracted it. Im sure hes not doing one damn thing on his own to effectively protect himself.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)ego trips intended to get him away from staff and family. The risks are taken by others.
Skittles
(153,204 posts)yeah, we fucking KNOW
iluvtennis
(19,880 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)about getting re-elected. Very worried, judging by his non-stop "fuck up the government as much as I can" activities of late. And all of those 2:00 a.m. tweet tirades look like the telltale signs of a worrier as well.
Skittles
(153,204 posts)he is one sick fuck
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)"one sick fuck" says it all!
2naSalit
(86,817 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)machoneman
(4,012 posts)jb5150
(1,183 posts)...
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Trump said Obama should be hugging Ebola patients back then. Shouldn't Trump be out hugging 'Rona patients?
gab13by13
(21,413 posts)people around Trump are testing positive but he tests negative, could the virus be hiding in the tumbleweed on his head?
EndlessWire
(6,570 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)wysi
(1,512 posts)Just let him get it, problem solved.
Orrex
(63,225 posts)I applaud Mr. Trump for taking this bold and principled stand in a time of uncertainty. Let us watch in awe as a largely sedentary, obese septuagenarian fuckhead does everything in his power to contract a potentially fatal illness.
NNadir
(33,563 posts)justgamma
(3,667 posts)almost daily and tests negative. I just don't see the advantage of all those tests on one person. What do they do if one day he tests positive? Give him a tylenol?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,384 posts)which could be achieved in more than one way.
noneof_theabove
(410 posts)Well leave him be and he can prove it is a hoax.
Once again he lets his alligator mouth overload his hummingbird ass.
truthisfreedom
(23,157 posts)Were dealing with an invisible situation. Nobody knows. All you can do is take precaution and do the best that you can. Translation: Im invincible. I know whats going on. Im not wearing a stupid mask because they make you look like a dweeb and Im not a dweeb. I need to meet with dictators and shit.
paleotn
(17,989 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,332 posts)Tempt the gods. And don't linger.
machoneman
(4,012 posts)of drugs like the new remi-drug. That or his fav hydoxy drug.
eppur_se_muova
(36,299 posts)EndlessWire
(6,570 posts)don't want to spend any money on protecting Trump. In fact, we are all sorta hoping, secretly, that...do you think that he realizes that most of his country hates his guts?
Where are our PPEs, tRumpy?
Initech
(100,107 posts)Warpy
(111,360 posts)because of the money he claims to have, the office he stole, and the Plaquenil he's been popping for two months, none of which offer any protection, at all, but he'll never listen to anyone who knows more than he does. Malignant narcissists have to know it all and anyone who points out that they don't become deadly enemies.